• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    I quit Facebook and changed my name. The only messages from people I knew in high school are old friends texting to catch up from time to time. It’s nice

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Everyone will get a gift basket that makes them have to buy crypto coins for a pyramid scheme that invests in cryptocurrency!

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    55·
    6 months ago

    I don’t get DMs because no one recognizes me.

    I literally walked into a bar with 14-15 men and women from my graduating class. I recognized and named each one. Not a single one of them recognized me.

    I can blend in with a fed, doctor, magat, retail employee, door sales man.

    For a long time the invisibility was painful.

    But recently I realize, it can have a lot of power too.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      I had the opposite problem. 5 years and a new gender after high school people were recognizing me basically immediately. Like I looked pretty different…

      I’ve come to accept that it’s because I have a large and distinct presence, which is a blessing and a curse.

      If you’re ever interested in developing more presence, try performing the role of yourself. It’s the same as being yourself but you ham it up a bit. Exaggerate the fun bits so the audience in the back can see. I noticed I do that instinctively while trying to learn to blend in.

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
      1·
      6 months ago

      I’m forced to assume that you are now surprisingly attractive, as well. That’s the way out goes with the person I never noticed in school.

      Of course, part of it might be that my definition of attractive grew up to be a lot healthier than it was when I was a kid.

      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I’m flattered! I have less hair, no beard, and a lot more muscle.

        Unfortunately my ex-wife really fucked with my self-image so I don’t actually know how attractive I am or not. Plus I’m like anti-photogenic, I just can’t get a good picture.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Direct message, basically when you message someone privately.

      Sad thing is, I knew the meaning of DM, but had to check what the actual abbreviation was…

      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Lowkey, we never should have switched from ‘private message’ to ‘direct message’. I feel like the switch in terminology has softened the public opinion towards corps reading your mail. Private messages should be private.

  • mstrk@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    Arya is hardly the most weird character in GOT… Probably the most based character in the series.

    • odelik@lemmy.today
      16·
      6 months ago

      Becky’s were before Karen.

      “Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt!”

      Thanks Sir Mix-a-Lot.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 months ago

      Becky is Karen’s friend who thinks she is cool because she’s nice and doesn’t yell at customer service workers but is actually a wet fart of a person and is just kinda boring. Kyle is… Well kyle is kyle. Everyone knows a kyle, maybe your kyle was called kevin (but I assure you he was still a kyle). Kyle is the guy who has it all figured out, if only “it all” was this years pyramid scam. Kyle is a nice guy! He wants to help you, really! He remembers that one time in high school when he tripped and you walked around him instead of stepping on his papers and he really appreciated that small kindness (like didn’t get much love at home).

      These are different from Karen and Chad. Chad is the Quarterback Soccer Captain of the Basketball team. He’s got more meat on his jaw than a butcher has on display. He got married to Karen, they dated all through high school so nobody was really surprised, but what IS surprising is that the sports scholarship that Chad got a full ride to Good University with got taken away after his 3rd on campus rape, something that surely would’ve flown under the radar if he just managed to throw that last game winning pass. Karen, for reasons known only to her and her gods, always forgives Chad for his misgivings and misdeeds.

  • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    I talk to one person from highschool, it’s my current department head, he joined the company about 10 years before me. We’ve joked that this is the closest either of us will ever get to a class reunion.

    The best part is we have a similar sense of humor and give each other shit during every team meeting. This is especially fun when newbies are in the meeting, we take it up a notch just to screw with them. Afterwards we of course let them in on the gag… eventually.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    I was in the same unit as some guys from my high school during my time as a conscript in the German army. Since then I’ve literally only ever met one of them briefly, thirty years ago. Apart from that I’ve had zero contact with anyone I’ve gone to school with.